Packing apparatus for machines for packing matches in boxes.



H. A. GSELL.

PACKING APPARATUS FOR MACHINES FOB. PACKING MATCHES IN BOXES.

. APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 11, 1912A 1,081,379, Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

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PAGKING APPARATUS FOR MACHINES POB. PACKING MATCHES IN BOXES.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 11, 1912.

1,081,379, Patented Dec.16,1913.

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Y. .y .Il 1 1f 2 W ff HENRY ALFRED (Ei-SELL, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

PACKING APPARATUS FOR MACHINES FOR PACKING MATCHES IN BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. i 1913.

Application filed June 11, 1312. Serial No. ''G3,088.

To (aU Iwho/m z'f may cof/tecra Be it known that I, HENRY ALFRED GsELL, a citizen of the Swiss Confederation, residing at Paris, France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Packing Apparatus for Machines for Packing Matches in lloxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a packing apparatus, wherein the matches are not measured off from the sides but from the tront (the head or end of the matches), whereby considerable space is saved, and width i'or width, twice as many boxes as in the old arrangement may be filled. I know there are slides or knives for measuring oil matches, which are also pushed in between the matches from the front and not from sides. lThe construction of these slides is iixed and does not allow a lateral movement, so that the matches are frequently cut into pieces or crushed in the acute angle of the dove-tailed slides.

The object of this invention is to provide measuring oili slides or knives formed of two parts which can yield sidewise. Between these two knives a free space is maintained until the knives pass beyond the heads of the matches said i'ree space corresponding to the thickness of one or two matches, whereupon the knives are closed completely. In this arrangement the matches cannot be cut into pieces, and the heads therefore cannot be injured, as at the utmost only one match can be wedged laterally between the knives. rlhus no injury would be produced as this wedged match would assist in preventing the upper matches from dropping downward.

In the accompanying drawings a construction according to this invention is illustrated by way of example.

Figure l shows a front elevation partly in section of the complete packing apparatus; Fig. 2 shows a horizontal section on the line Q-2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 shows a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4t shows in vertical section an enlarged detail of the packing apparatus; Fig. 5 is a'horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. t, showing a compartment of the measuring olif apparatus prior to the measuring olf, the slides or knives being in an open position; Fig. 6 is a similar section, the slides or knives being is a Afurl her similar section showing` the slides completely pushed in and in a closed position.

In the magazine l are contained horizontally arranged matches as shown in Figs. l. and 1li. In order to enable a certain qualitity to be measured oilU for each box7 the plunger 2 will be raised into the position shown in Fig. et, said plunger being actuated by a cam-disk 4- through the medium of a slide 5, moving in a slide 6 of the frame 7, and link 8 and lever 9.

Between the plunger 2 and the level of the measuring slides or knives l0 there is left a space corresponding to the volume of one box.

Now, when the measuring slides or knives l0, which are also actuated by the cam disk t through the medium of lever 1l and link l2 acting upon a bar 13, are moved backward, the matches drop upon the plunger 2. Afterward the knives are again moved forward entering between the matches of the corresponding compartment so that the matches above the level of the knives are separated from the matches supported by the plunger 2, and the latter will be lowered to a position where the matches are taken oil.

The knives l0 are pivoted horizontally on the reciprocating bar 13 by means oi links 14 and screws 15. Each link is provided with a pin 16 engaged by a spring 17. As shown in Figs. 57 the front end 18 of each knife is dish-shaped.

22 denote pistons connected to a bar 24- rcciprocated by means of a connecting link 23 and a link 23 by a cam disk 25. The pistons 22 push the measured-oil' matches into the boxes 26 as shown in Fig. l.

The operation of the measuring slides or knives is clearly demonstrated in Figs. 5-7. During the forward movement, oiti the knives l0 roller 19 keeps them apart, until the side [Jortion 18 is moved beyond the heads of the matches. The sloping edge 21 of the shank ot each knit'e l() enables the knives to be completely closed as shown in Fig. 7 by the action oi the spring 17, when they are in their innermost position. Figs. 3 and i show how the knives slide in the spaces of the dii-ferent compartments oi the apparatus.

In the apparatus according to this invention the horizontally pivoted knives require only a small space for their actuation, so that the walls separating the different compartly pushed in the compartment and Fiv. 7 I partments of the magazine can be made much thinner and considerable space is saved for the packing operation.

I claim:

l. In an apparatus for packing matches in bones7 wherein the store of matches is measured olf by knives pushed in between the matches from the ends or heads of the latter, a reciprocating bar, knives pivoted horizontall7 in pairs on said bar and means for closing coi-np-letely the knives of each pair after' they have passed beyond the heads of the matches.

2. In an apparatus for packing matches in boxes wherein the store of matches is Ineasu-red ofi' by knives pushed in between the matches from the ends or heads of the latter7 a reciprocating bar, knives having a dish-shaped front end and plvoted horizontally in pairs on said bar, a sloping edge on the shank of each knife, a roller arranged between the knives and springs moving the knives of each pair toward each other after the sloping edge of the knife engages said roller.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY ALFRED GSELL.

itnesses O'.- SIGLEMHAAR, LUoInN MEMMIN-GER.

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